Definition of hips Hips
/hɪˈps/ - [hips] -
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What does hips mean?
Wiktionary 
- hips (Noun)
Plural of hip.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| hip - the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum | ||
| hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae | ||
| articulatio spheroidea, cotyloid joint, enarthrodial joint, enarthrosis, spheroid joint, ball-and-socket joint a joint that can rotate within a socket | ||
| thigh the part of the leg between the hip and the knee | ||
| pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis, hip a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | ||
| hip - either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh | ||
| body part any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity | ||
| torso, trunk, body the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" | ||
| hip - (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof | ||
| exterior angle, external angle the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon | ||
| hip roof, hipped roof a roof having sloping ends as well as sloping sides | ||
| hip - the fruit of a rose plant | ||
| rose hip, rosehip | ||
| fruit the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" | ||
| hip - the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | ||
| pelvis, pelvic girdle, pelvic arch | ||
| girdle a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | ||
| appendicular skeleton the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs | ||
| coccyx, tail bone the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes | ||
| hipbone, innominate bone large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis | ||
| ilium the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone | ||
| ischial bone, ischium, os ischii one of the three sections of the hipbone; situated below the ilium | ||
| os pubis, pubic bone, pubis one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis | ||
| sacrum wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx | ||
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Wiktionary
- hip (Noun)
The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. - hip (Noun)
The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes. - hip (Noun)
The fruit of a rose. - hip (Verb)
To use one's hips to bump into someone. - hip (Verb)
To inform, to make knowledgeable.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hip (n.)
The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. - hip (n.)
The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions. - hip (n.)
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. - hip (v. t.)
To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side. - hip (v. t.)
To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock). - hip (v. t.)
To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. - hip (n.)
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). - hip (interj.)
Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra! - hip (n.)
Alt. of Hipps
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hip, n. the haunch or fleshy part of the thigh: (archit.) the external angle formed by the sides of a roof when the end slopes backward instead of terminating in a gable.—v.t. to sprain the hip:—pr.p. hip′ping; pa.p. hipped, hipt.—ns. Hip′-bath, a bath to sit in—also Sitz-bath; Hip′-gir′dle, -belt, the 14th-century sword-belt, passing diagonally from waist to hip; Hip′-gout, sciatica; Hip′-joint, the articulation of the head of the thigh-bone with the ilium; Hip′-knob, an ornament placed on the apex of the hips of a roof or on a gable; Hip′-lock, a trick in wrestling by which one throws a leg and hip before the other to throw him; Hip′ping, a napkin wrapped about an infant's hips.—adj. Hip′-shot, having the hip out of joint.—Hip-and-thigh, in phrase, 'smitten hip-and-thigh'=smitten both before and behind, completely overpowered.—Have, Catch, on the hip, to get an advantage over some one—a metaphor from the wrestling-ring. [A.S. hype; Goth. hups, Ger. hüfte.] -
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hip, Hep, hep, n. the fruit of the wild brier or dog-rose. [A.S. héope, a hip.] -
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Hyp, hip, n. hypochondria.—v.t. to render melancholy.—adjs. Hipped, rendered melancholy; Hip′pish, somewhat hypochondriac. [A corr. of hypochondria.] -
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hip, interj. an exclamation to invoke a united cheer—Hip′-hip′-hurr′ah
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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A popular location for the retail liquor business.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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A mode of calling to one passing by. Hip, Michael, your head's on fire; a piece of vulgar wit to a red haired man.
